Combination toilet tank cover and cabinet



June 7, 1932. J. H. KELLY COMBINATION TOILET TANK COVER AND CABINET Filed Jan. 14, 1931 INVENTOR ATTOR Patented June 7, 1932 JOHN HENRY KELLY, OF LONGVI IIEW, WASHINGTON COMBINATION TOILET TANK COVER- AND Application filed January 14, 1931. Serial No. 508,594.

My invention is primarily intendedforuse as a cover for toilet tanks in which a cabinet is formed integral with the cover. The device may be made as an auxiliary to the cover 8 and being adapted to fit thereupon and to be held in placement by the normal cover of the flush tank.

The invention in its preferred embodiment consists of a box-like structure having a slop- 1 ing front top wall with the slope belng suflicient to prevent the maintaining of articles in a state of rest thereupon with the sloping surface acting as a lid for the cabinet of the box-like structure into which articles to be stored may be placed.

The object of my invention 1s to prevent articles falling into the open toilet that are normally placed upon the flush tank or tha may be placed thereupon.

A further object of my invention consists in providing a receptacle placeable upon the flush tank of the toilet into which the articles normally used within the bath room, may be placed to thereby prevent the same a falling, or becoming accidentally placed into the toilet bowl.

A further object of my invention consists in providing a box-like structure having a hinged closure that may be placed upon and readily removed from, the flush tank of the toilet and that may be used as a receptacle for the placing of articles therein for storage and yet be readily accessible to the user of the bath room and of the toilet.

A still further object of my invention consists in providing a device that is placeable upon the flush tank of a toilet that willprevent the placing of articles thereupon that would accidentally fall into the toilet bowl.

With these and incidental objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combination of parts, the essential elements of which are set forth in the appended claim, and a preferred embodiment of which is hereinafter shown with reference to the drawing which accompanics and forms a part of this specification.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a front View of a toilet and flush tank and illustrating my new and improved toilet tank cover and cabinet disposed 7 upon the flush tank.

Fig. 2 is a side view of the combination toilet flush tank, cover and cabinet.

Fig; 3 is aside view, partially-in'section,

of the mechanism illustrated in Fig. 2. V

Flg. A 1s a perspective side view of the combination toilet flush tank cover and cabinet shown in position upon the. flush tank and illustrating the front hinged Wall of the cabinet, as being in open positioni Like reference characters refer to like parts throughout't'he several views. a

/ lis the flush tank of the toilet upon Which my cabinet 2 is'to be placed. The'cabinet is preferably madeof a bottom wall 3 and has end walls 4 and 5 disposed at the oppositely disposed ends of the same. A back wall 6 connects the end walls and the bottom wall.

The end walls 4 and 5 preferably extend below the bottom 3 to prevent the endwise movement of the cabinet when placed upon the flush tank. The end walls have uniformly sloping surfaces 7 and 8, the slope being sufficient to prevent any articles coming to repose when placed upon the slope as provided. A closure 9 is hingedly secured to the cabinet and acts as the front wall of the same. The same is hinged to the cabinet by any suitable hinging means, as by a pair of butt hinges 11 that are placed upon the interior of the box. A bend 12 may be formed Within the hinged closure to adapt the same to form the front wall of the cabinet and the top sloping surface. v v

A further object in making the closure to cover the major portion of the top and the front wall is to facilitate the placing of relatively large articles into the cabinet when the hinged closure is opened.

The toilet 13is normally disposed in front of and below the flush tank and when the bin ed closure is made as illustrated in Fig.

.3, it e hinged closure practically covers the I have here shown a ledge or horizontal shelf 15, as terminating the upper side of the cabinet. This ledge should be made sufficiently narrow so as not to form a shelf upon which articles may be placed, the purpose being to require the articles to be placed within the cabinet when not in use and to be out of sight when the cabinet is closed.

While the form of mechanism herein shown and described is admirably adapted to fulfill the objects primarily stated, it is to.

be understood that it is not intended to confine the invention to the form of embodiment I herein shown and described, as it is susceptible of embodiment in various forms," all coming follows.

What I claim is: l A cabinet adapted to be used as a closure for the open topof a flush tank comprising within the scope of the claim which a body .elementhaving its base removably said side walls downwardly sloping from the disposed upon the top of the flush tank and forming the top thereof, rear and side walls extending upwardly from the base, said rear wall having a flange formed forwardly, and

' front edge of the flange, a closure hingedly securedto the front edge of the base, said closure adapted to form the front wall and sloping top wall of the cabinet, thereby to prevent the placing of articles upon the cabinet, and springs secured to the side walls and to the closure adapted to normally maintain the closure in closed position. g V JOHN HENRY KELLY. 

